At last! A red tomato.
 

My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has the
very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she
says, next year. Seriously.
In sons main garden the tomatoes are still very green even after nipping
them out with only 2 trusses each.

Baz

At last! A red tomato.
 

"Baz" wrote in message
...
My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has
the
very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she
says, next year. Seriously.
In sons main garden the tomatoes are still very green even after nipping
them out with only 2 trusses each.

Baz

I'm getting lots of red ones, but some are only pea size! I know it's a
cherry tom, but pea size?

--
Kathy

At last! A red tomato.
 

Baz wrote:

My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has the
very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she
says, next year.

If it's any consolation, I have lots of green tomatoes in my colonial
garden, but only a few a day ripening, so barely enough for salad and
marinated ("Rotten") tomatoes. And that's with several dozen plants of
various heirloom types. I'm still hoping for a late-summer rush so I can
do juice and sauce.


--
Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

At last! A red tomato.
 

"Baz" wrote

My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has the
very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she
says, next year. Seriously.
In sons main garden the tomatoes are still very green even after nipping
them out with only 2 trusses each.


I think she/you have done well. We are the only gardeners on our allotment
site still with tomatoes the rest have lost theirs to blight including the
one that also grows blight resistant varieties and sprays.
Despite using Bordeaux Mixture our tomatoes have suffered badly, over half
of our Blight Resistant varieties have died**yet we still have some "Black
Russian" and "Cherry" ones growing well with fruit slowly going red. Picked
the first red cherry ones yesterday.
** Some died of Blight but three large plants just died, no sign of blight,
one day OK, the next they had wilted. Perhaps it got the roots.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

At last! A red tomato.
 

"Baz" wrote in message
...

My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has
the very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice,
she says, next year. Seriously.
In sons main garden the tomatoes are still very green even after nipping
them out with only 2 trusses each.

Baz

_______________________

Mine in the greenhouse are still green, though of reasonable size. Just
need a week or so of sunshine! Have even cut off some of the leaves to
get more light on the toms, to no avail. I must confess that they did go
in a bit late though.

Our grand children unfortunately live 100 miles away, so we can not
influence them much - they are still self confident and cheeky like
yours tho'


--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

At last! A red tomato.
 

I think she/you have done well. We are the only gardeners on our allotment
site still with tomatoes the rest have lost theirs to blight including the
one that also grows blight resistant varieties and sprays.
Despite using Bordeaux Mixture our tomatoes have suffered badly, over half
of our Blight Resistant varieties have died**yet we still have some "Black
Russian" and "Cherry" ones growing well with fruit slowly going red. Picked
the first red cherry ones yesterday.
** Some died of Blight but three large plants just died, no sign of blight,
one day OK, the next they had wilted. Perhaps it got the roots.

Location Cambridge.

2 or 3 different varieties planted (mostly from car boot, eg
Moneymaker) ~4 months ago.
Lots of small (~ 1/2 to 2/3 full size), but no sign of red.
There's not been many bright sunny days.

Shame, this year I did a better job vs last year when I just used
earth in a 6" high concrete planter tray - and had great results.
This year I actually put in ~50% compost.

Is there still time to turn red ?
Or should I cut them off (branches with say 6 toms) and leave in
kitchen window ?

How to identify blight ???
I keep cutting off a few bottom leaves which are a bit yellow with
brown spots.
I hope that's not blight.

Thanks.

At last! A red tomato.
 

"Stewart" wrote


I think she/you have done well. We are the only gardeners on our allotment
site still with tomatoes the rest have lost theirs to blight including the
one that also grows blight resistant varieties and sprays.
Despite using Bordeaux Mixture our tomatoes have suffered badly, over half
of our Blight Resistant varieties have died**yet we still have some "Black
Russian" and "Cherry" ones growing well with fruit slowly going red.
Picked
the first red cherry ones yesterday.
** Some died of Blight but three large plants just died, no sign of
blight,
one day OK, the next they had wilted. Perhaps it got the roots.

Location Cambridge.

2 or 3 different varieties planted (mostly from car boot, eg
Moneymaker) ~4 months ago.
Lots of small (~ 1/2 to 2/3 full size), but no sign of red.
There's not been many bright sunny days.

Shame, this year I did a better job vs last year when I just used
earth in a 6" high concrete planter tray - and had great results.
This year I actually put in ~50% compost.

Is there still time to turn red ?
Or should I cut them off (branches with say 6 toms) and leave in
kitchen window ?

How to identify blight ???
I keep cutting off a few bottom leaves which are a bit yellow with
brown spots.
I hope that's not blight.


They get distinct black patches on leaves and if you are really unlucky on
stems. Sometimes you can cut these off into green stuff and it won't spread
as I have been doing with the Cherry and Black Russian but normally it
quickly takes over the whole plant and kills it. I spray with Bordeaux
Mixture and think that is the reason why I still have some tomatoes. Looks
like the reason the three blight resistant ones of ours simply wilted and
died was because a mole undermined the roots, would you believe it!
Spoke to another chap from a different allotment site and he said he was the
only one left with tomatoes on his site so we are lucky to have got this
far.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

At last! A red tomato.
 

Gary Woods wrote:
My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has the
very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she
says, next year.

If it's any consolation, I have lots of green tomatoes in my colonial
garden, but only a few a day ripening, so barely enough for salad and
marinated ("Rotten") tomatoes. And that's with several dozen plants of
various heirloom types. I'm still hoping for a late-summer rush so I can
do juice and sauce.

If everyone's tomatoes are doing badly it makes me feel better about my
lack of beans and courgettes. My tomatoes, at least the cherries, have been
ripening up well in the greenhouse for over a month now! I think that this
year is the earliest ever, as normally I'm banana-ing them for the club show
the week before, which is mid-August, and this year I was spoilt for choice.

At last! A red tomato.
 

"Baz" wrote in message
...
My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has
the
very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she
says, next year. Seriously.

Do you think she might advise me too ...:)

In sons main garden the tomatoes are still very green even after nipping
them out with only 2 trusses each.

As you probably know, we are often away from home for a good part of the
year and I like to sow something and take it with us. This year I grew some
courgettes (not doing too well now but they were sown late) but last year, I
grew some wee tomatoes in a basket and while there were not very many, we
did enjoy them:)
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